Ian Hickey has worked as a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College. His first monograph Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry was published by Routledge in 2021 and was joint winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize. He also co-edited, alongside Ellen Howley, Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking in 2023 and The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose with Eugene O’Brien in 2024, both published by Routledge. He has published numerous journal articles on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Brendan Behan and 21st century Irish writing, as well as on Benjamin Zephaniah in Spoken Word in the UK. He is currently writing his second monograph entitled Fragmentation: Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry and Fiction.